Meta Says It Has Fired 20 Employees For Leaking Information: 'we Expect There Will Be More'

As of Thursday, Meta has fired astir 20 labour for spilling "confidential information" to nan spot and different parties extracurricular of Meta.

"We precocious conducted an investigation that resulted successful astir 20 labour being terminated for sharing confidential accusation extracurricular nan company, and we expect location will beryllium more," Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold told The Verge. "We return this seriously, and will proceed to return action erstwhile we spot leaks."

Arnold said that erstwhile labour subordinate Meta, they are made alert of nan company's strict no-leaks policy, which prohibits portion from revealing psyche information.

Related: 'There Are Repercussions': Meta Reminds Staff of Its Strict No-Leaks Policy — That Has Since Been Leaked to nan Press

Meta cracked down connected leaks aft Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg held an all-hands gathering past play — and a signaling leaked to aggregate outlets almost immediately. That aforesaid day, The Verge too obtained an psyche memo sent to portion by Meta's Chief Information Security Officer Guy Rosen informing them against sharing confidential information.

During a institution Q&A earlier this month, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth noted nan "tremendous number of leaks" from incorrect nan institution and warned labour that Meta was "making advancement connected catching people." A signaling of nan gathering besides leaked to nan press.

Related: Meta Confirms It Is Doubling Executives Bonuses to 'Motivate' and 'Reward Them' a Week After Layoffs

Meta conducted performance-based layoffs connected February 10 that affected 5% of its 72,000-person workforce aliases astir 3,600 labour who weren't gathering standards. The cuts amazed immoderate affected workers, who said they had a "solid" measurement grounds of capacity astatine nan company.

Meta has too precocious made sweeping changes to really contented is moderated connected Facebook, Instagram, and Threads pinch nan determination to rotation retired Community Notes, a strategy that enables users to emblem misleading contented and represent explanations citing their sources. The caller strategy replaces nan independent fact-checking 1 that Meta had successful spot for 8 years.